Stratojoe17 Posted November 2, 2019 Share Posted November 2, 2019 I am impressed by my new HX Stomp. As I was used to playing directly into the amp before, I can now hear some latency. It's not much but not nice. Whats the best way to reduce latency to the maximum. Which effects heavily affect latency ? Any recommendations you could give ? Thx Jo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rd2rk Posted November 2, 2019 Share Posted November 2, 2019 If you're plugged directly (by cable) into the Stomp, which is plugged directly into your amp or powered speakers, there should be no more than 1.8ms latency which is, IIRC, the time it takes to convert your analog signal to digital and back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stratojoe17 Posted November 2, 2019 Author Share Posted November 2, 2019 1,8 ms regardless of the amounts and types of effects used ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rd2rk Posted November 2, 2019 Share Posted November 2, 2019 47 minutes ago, Stratojoe17 said: 1,8 ms regardless of the amounts and types of effects used ? AFAIK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kilrahi Posted November 2, 2019 Share Posted November 2, 2019 No one can hear that type of latency. It's not something to worry about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayridge Posted November 2, 2019 Share Posted November 2, 2019 Sound travels roughly a foot in a millisecond. 1.8 ms is the latency you would experience if your ears were ~2 ft from the speaker. If it is worse than that something else is going on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaschaFranck Posted November 2, 2019 Share Posted November 2, 2019 From all I remember, the general latency of the Helix family is indeed around 2ms (should take the time to measure it myself, but it seemed correct to me). However, someone from the Line 6 team somewhere said it could as well be a tad higher on certain patches - but IMO it should never really get in the way. However, if you really feel a noticeable latency (unless you are Donald Fagen who is supposed to hear timing offsets of just some samples, no idea whether that's true or just an urban myth), do you by any chance have some questionable IRs in use? I noticed some of the free ones floating around to be trimmed rather poorly - and even just 1024 samples at 48kHz give you plenty of room for additional latency (21.3333333...ms to be exact). If that's not the case, you might as well be Mr. "In The Pocket" (which isn't a bad thing at all). Or it's something else which goes wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stratojoe17 Posted November 3, 2019 Author Share Posted November 3, 2019 I knew that 1,8 ms are not noticeable. No questionable IRs installed. The unit is brand new. Thanks for your answers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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